Committee preference forms were delivered on Monday, February 22nd. If
a person is currently on a committee, they need to indicate their interest in
remaining on the committee next year. Also, volunteering for three or more
committees will maximize the likelihood of serving on one committee.

Senate Nomination Petitions

Enough nomination petitions were received to fill all senate seats and there
will be run-offs in the SAH and At-Large categories.

Speaker on Campus

The OCW Symposium committee and the Women’s Advisory Council are
co-sponsoring Ann Crittenden's upcoming visit to campus. In addition to
her presentation the evening of April 6, she will be the speaker April 7th at
this year's OCW symposium, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Cleary Center. The title
of her presentation is “If You’ve Managed Your Kids, You Can Manage Anything.” –
the same as the title of her most recent book.

Crittenden was a reporter for The New York Times for eight years,
writing on a broad range of economic topics. She initiated numerous
investigative reports and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She also has
been a financial writer and foreign correspondent for Newsweek, a
reporter for Fortune magazine, a visiting lecturer for MIT and Yale, an
economics commentator for CBS News, and executive director of the Fund for
Investigative Journalism. Her previous books include Sanctuary: A Story of
American Conscience and the Law in Collision, one of the New York
Times Notable Books of the Year in 1988. Her articles have appeared in
every national newspaper and numerous magazines, including Foreign Affairs,
The Nation, Barron's, and Working Woman.

Sabbaticals

SEC charged the Faculty Development committee to report on:

1)The operating procedures of each college with regard to sabbatical review
including:

a)the make up, selection process, and term length of the review committees
members

b)the role (if any) of administrators versus faculty in the selection
process

c)the specific criteria by which proposals are ranked

d)the record of policies and procedures employed since the 2000-2001
academic year

2)Create a table describing college sabbatical information from
2000-present.

The faculty development final report is posted on the senate web page under
documents for 2/23/06 meeting. The report outlines the procedures used in
each of the three colleges to award sabbaticals. Additionally, the table
summarizes the number of sabbaticals funded as compared to the number submitted.
In the last 5 years (including the 2006-07 academic year), 42 proposals were
submitted, with 34 receiving funding. The large majority of the remaining
were not funded due to a lack of resources. Faculty Development made no
recommendations thus no action was taken.

B. Provost’s Report – Provost Hitch
updated Senate on the NCA visit. She encouraged everyone to take a look at
the NCA self-study which is available on the web at:
http://www.uwlax.edu/nca/. The site visit is scheduled for April
24-26.

Provost Hitch also reported that she will be
releasing approximately $650,000 for section relief over the next year. That is
about $100,000 more than the current year. Finally, Provost Hitch reported
that she is approving 2 new faculty lines.

C. Vice Chancellor of Administration and
Finance Report – Vice-Chancellor Lostetter reported to senate on two items.
Planning and Budget received a report this week stating that UWL is $950,000
short of which $800,000 is set aside for a budget reduction. The remaining
$150,000 is still an estimate and is dependent on the status of spring
enrollment.

The Board of Regents has approved a
recommendation to lower non-resident tuition to a competitive level of about
$12,000. Thus UWL will lose approximately $600,000 in tuition for next
year. UWL is planning to mitigate this. Furthermore, application of
waivers may adjust for the decrease in tuition.

UWL will be officially presenting the “yellow
taxi” project to UW System next week. There are plans to present
discussion at the March Board of Regents meeting.

Faculty Representative’s Report – Joe Heim, UWL Faculty
Representative, gave a report on the most recent faculty representatives
meeting. Heim discussed the Board of Regents proposed Faculty and Academic
Staff Disciplinary Policy in which staff who are accused of committing a
felon, depending on the nature of the felon, can be dismissed or suspended
without pay. A copy and a summary of the proposed policy is posted on the
faculty senate web site. Other campuses have drafted resolutions or
position papers in response to this policy. UWL’s faculty senate will also
be responding to this policy and thus Heim encouraged members to send
comments to him as soon as possible.

Heim also updated senate on the recent UW System
chancellor raises, the conceal carry bill, and TABOR.

E.
Student Association Representative’s Report – Ryan Vanloo, student
association representative, briefed senators that the United Council is looking
at the issues of collective bargaining, alcohol as an intoxicant bill, and
TABOR. He also updated senate that the student body in an advisory
referendum voted to support paying for a portion of the new stadium. The
Student Senate passed the resolution at their most recent meeting.

IV.Joint Planning &
Budget Committee Recommendations – David Riley presented to senate the First
Report on Operational Efficiencies and Enhancements, which is similar to a draft
report presented to senate on 12/8/05 with the addition of recommendation #6.

Recommendation #1:

JPB recommends that administrators permit
supervising employees to reduce the percentage of their appointment given two
conditions:

1. the employee requests such
reduction of his/her own free will, and

2. the reduction can occur without
seriously impairing campus operations.

M/S/P to pass Recommendation #1.

Recommendation #2:

With regard to summer school and J-Term the Joint
Planning and Budget Committee recommends:

1. UW-L departments
should be encouraged to develop course offerings that are specifically fit to
the unique characteristics of these terms.

2. UW-L departments
should be encouraged to develop summer courses with appeal for non UW-L
students.

3. UW-L should
increase marketing of summer session.

4. Summer session
class schedules should be available at the time of spring registration.

Discussion on this recommendation included the
concern of who will be encouraging participation in summer school and the
disincentives for faculty to develop and teach summer courses.

M/S/P to pass Recommendation #2.

Recommendation #3:

The Joint Planning and Budget Committee (JPB)
recognizes that the wide variety of Instructional Academic Staff (IAS)
assignments makes it impractical to establish a “one size fits all” IAS workload
expectation - be it credits per semester, contact hours or student credit hours.
It is also clear that many IAS have already assumed substantial responsibilities
at or beyond the original suggestion’s spirit of a 15-credit instructional load,
and there is no evidence that there is a reasonable expectation for significant
additional revenue from blanket changes to IAS assignments. JPB recommends
that academic departments in consultation with their deans re-evaluate workload
policies to ensure that IAS are treated fairly and that IAS responsibilities are
appropriate. JPB further recommends that IAS contractual policies be
amended to provide job security for this group of employees that is more
consistent with other UW-L employees and other UW campuses.

Discussion on this recommendation included that
this recommendation is in the spirit of what the IAS Committee is currently
studying.

M/S/P to pass Recommendation #3.

Recommendation 4:

The Joint Budget and Planning Committee
encourages the campus:

1. to use more
digital and less printed material.

2. to investigate
a campus-wide printing cost recovery solution.

Discussion on this recommendation included that
Item 2 means that a study on this issue would be done and then ways of how to
charge for computer printing would be looked at.

M/S/P to pass Recommendation #4.

Recommendation 5:

The Joint Planning and Budget Committee (JPB)
recognizes that student printing at UW-L is a major cost to the campus that is
currently subject to inconsistent controls. Generally there are no
explicit limits or costs for student printing. JPB recommends that the
chancellor charge a group to investigate and potentially implement a campus-wide
and cost-effective solution that creates incentives for students to make
rational trade-offs about on-campus printing.

M/S/P to pass Recommendation #5.

Recommendation 6:

A pool of money should be created for
summer/J-Term courses that the Deans choose not to fund and that will earn a
profit.

Discussion on this recommendation included
questions on the details of this plan such as would it be a college level or a
single pool and who would oversee this pool. It was stressed that this
would be a self-funded single pool. The intent of this recommendation is
to establish an incentive to teach summer school but the details of the plan are
to be worked out.

M/S/P to pass Recommendation #6.

V. CAPS Report &
Recommendations – Adrienne Loh, chair of CAPS, presented to senate a report
on the committee’s 2004 charge to ”report on the Fall 2004 enrollment:
determine if enrollment targets were met, and review the admission criteria used
in the selection of the cohort, and review enrollment targets and admissions
standards for Fall 2005.” The final report is posted on the Faculty Senate
web site under “CAPS Report and Recommendations”. The committee brings
forth the following four recommendations.

Recommendation #1:

CAPS strongly recommends (9/0/0) that enrollment
targets be delivered to Admissions no later than October 1 of the target year.

Recommendation #2:

CAPS recommends (8/1/0) requiring completion of
18 credits or more for transfer to UW-L.

Recommendation #3:

CAPS recommends (6/0/0) that non-resident
students be subject to the same admissions standards used for all other incoming
freshmen.

Recommendation #4:

CAPS further strongly recommends (6/0/0) that the
non-resident targets be re-evaluated to be more realistic.

Discussion on these recommendations mainly
focused on recommendation #2. The evaluation of transfer students for admission
to UWL was discussed. Transfer students are evaluated via their own
criteria. For students without an established post-secondary record (no
college GPA) their high school record is evaluated and they will not be
officially admitted till a college transcript is submitted whereby final
admission is based on college work.

Concern was expressed over this policy being
overly restrictive for the transfer student who decides to transfer after one
semester and whose academic performance warranted admission as a new freshman.